How much does Google Maps make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Google Maps earns approximately $5.0M/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.

Is Google Maps profitable?

With estimated build cost $190K and monthly revenue $5.0M, Google Maps looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Google Maps have?

Estimated audience: ~619.5M lifetime downloads, ~27.0M monthly active users, and ~12.0M daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.

What apps are like Google Maps?

Browse the full News category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.

What is Google Maps built with?

Our heuristic places Google Maps on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.

Is Google Maps still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Google Maps sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $99.5M (marketplace range $75.0M – $129.5M). Calculated as 20× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.

When was Google Maps last updated?

Google Maps last shipped a new version on 2026-09-16 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Google Maps?

Google Maps is published by Google on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.

What is Google Maps's BU Score?

Google Maps has a BU Score of 81/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Google Maps

Quality Score

Excellent

Google Maps

Name: Google Maps — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Google Maps revenue, Google Maps app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, News revenue, iOS app revenue

by Google

High confidence

4.7 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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This app dominates the navigation category, directly competing with Apple Maps, Waze, and smaller regional mapping solutions. Its massive user base, evidenced by millions of ratings, signals an established, mature product with outstanding market penetration. The minimal estimated monthly revenue, despite its widespread adoption, confirms its free monetization strategy and highlights its role as a platform-level utility rather than a direct revenue generator. For navigation apps, a common monetization observation is the reliance on indirect revenue streams, such as location-based advertising or partnerships with businesses for featured listings. Direct in-app purchases or subscriptions are rare for core navigation functionality, with most revenue coming from data monetization or integration into broader service ecosystems. This app exemplifies that model, leveraging its user data and platform integration rather than direct user payments.

BU Score 81 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$5.0M

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$5.1M – $6.8M

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$5.7M – $8.6M

per month

MEGA tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

81 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.7

Reviews

7,375,855 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0M

Snapshots tracked

since Apr 2026

🤖Also on Android

Google Maps

$212/mo · 19.5M ratings · 3.2★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$190K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $140K – $255K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in under a month at current MRR

Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.

Where the money goes

🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship)	+$28K
📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K	+$22K
📦 Asset bundle (476 MB)	+$40K
⚙ News complexity ×1.20	+$18K
⚙ 13.8y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$82K

Total estimate $190K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$99.5M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75.0M – $129.5M · 20× MRR multiple

💸 ~524× return on build cost

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.

How the multiple was built

📺 Ad-supported base	15× MRR
📅 13.8y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 News category multiple	-5%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 20× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

619.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

27.0M

Daily active

12.0M

Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.

How we sized it

📲 News engagement	~120 installs / rating
📅 13.8y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 News D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.45

DAU / MAU 44% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

Medium confidence · 55%

Also possible

React Native Flutter

Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.

Signals we read

📦 App bundle size	476 MB
🏷 Category context	News
📦 Large iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets

💀 Maintenance status

Active

Last shipped 2026-09-16 · 8 days ago

0 · Active 50 · At risk 100 · Abandoned

Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.

Risk signals

📅 8 days since last update

Active development

Verdict Active

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$4.9M – $6.0M

12 months

$5.1M – $6.8M

24 months

$5.7M – $8.6M

Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 62/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautious

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

8.4

Product Quality

9.3

Revenue Strength

6.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $2.0M - $10.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.67★ across 7,366,822 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.

🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90.0M-$160.0M.

Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.

Range:

💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL

Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.

🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 11 of 11 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

High install base (7,375,855 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC		+$2,200
worth every pennyREVIEW		+$2,000
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Multilingual (42 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v26.37.3

Thanks for using Google Maps! This release brings bug fixes that improve our product to help you discover new places and navigate to them.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Google Maps
Developer: Google
Bundle ID: com.google.Maps
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: News
Content rating: 4+
Languages: SQ, AR, HY, AZ, MY, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, KA, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LT, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, ES, SW, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UZ, VI

Company

Website: maps.google.com
Tagline: Bevor Sie zu Google weitergehen
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $5.0M/mo
Top-grossing rank: 🇮🇳#33 /100 🇧🇷#78 /100 🇯🇵#100 /100
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Founder data not yet collected for this app.

Funding

Funding data not yet collected for this app.

Press & Links

Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.

Contacts & Socials

Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.

📈Ratings growth7,347,967 ratings+2% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries

🇮🇳IN

#33 /100

🇧🇷BR

#78 /100

🇯🇵JP

#100 /100

📊Category Rank Trajectory#33 now · best #33 · worst #33

Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart

🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter15 releases tracked

🚀Version Release Timeline8 releases tracked

Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.

📝 About this app

Explore and navigate the world with confidence using Google Maps. Find the best routes with live traffic data and real-time GPS navigation for driving, walking, cycling, and public transport. Discover over 250 million businesses and places - from restaurants and shops to everyday essentials – with photos, reviews, and helpful information.

Navigate the world, the way you want:
• Get to where you need to go with fuel-efficient route options
• Find the best route with real-time, turn-by-turn voice, and on screen navigation… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 476 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v26.37.3🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 SQ, AR, HY, AZ, MY +37📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)

📅

What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

18 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →

2026-08

🔧

Shipped update — v26.31.5 → v26.33.1

→ 30 days after: reviews +46,534 high confidence

2026-08

🔧

Shipped update — v26.31.4 → v26.31.5

→ 30 days after: reviews +63,192 medium · co-occurring

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v26.30.3 → v26.31.4

→ 30 days after: reviews +63,192 low · multiple changes

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v26.30.2 → v26.30.3

→ 30 days after: reviews +70,470 low · multiple changes

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v26.29.1 → v26.30.2

→ 30 days after: reviews +70,470 low · multiple changes

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v26.28.0 → v26.29.1

→ 30 days after: revenue +$212/mo · reviews +35,749 medium · co-occurring

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v26.27.2 → v26.28.0

→ 30 days after: revenue +$212/mo · reviews +41,773 medium · co-occurring

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v26.26.3 → v26.27.2

→ 30 days after: revenue +$212/mo · reviews +48,941 medium · co-occurring

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v26.25.3 → v26.26.3

→ 30 days after: revenue +$212/mo · reviews +51,928 medium · co-occurring

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v26.24.1 → v26.25.3

→ 30 days after: revenue +$212/mo · reviews +48,044 medium · co-occurring

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v26.23.5 → v26.24.1

→ 30 days after: reviews +50,025 low · multiple changes

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v26.23.4 → v26.23.5

→ 30 days after: reviews +48,562 medium · co-occurring

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v26.22.2 → v26.23.4

→ 30 days after: reviews +49,043 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v26.21.1 → v26.22.2

→ 30 days after: reviews +47,358 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v26.20.4 → v26.21.1

→ 30 days after: reviews +51,127 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v26.19.2 → v26.20.4

→ 30 days after: reviews +44,975 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v? → v26.19.2

→ 30 days after: reviews +124,494 medium · co-occurring

2026-04

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +88,428 high confidence

🔎

ASO Keyword Positions

BEST RANK #4

Ranked for 3 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.

offline maps·#4🇺🇸metro maps·#10🇺🇸trip planner·#33🇺🇸

Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.64128★	498,886	4.64128★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4.83427★	1,475,163	4.83427★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.61514★	861,441	4.61514★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.60973★	933,359	4.60973★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.5809★	807,096	4.5809★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.66045★	978,344	4.66045★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.70603★	2,375,236	4.70603★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.52233★	1,777,485	4.52233★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.66843★	7,375,855	4.66843★ this version

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Google Maps: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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